CNN political pundit and journalist Chris Cillizza posts a graphic (gif) to his twitter account moments ago attacking President Trump through his remarks during the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service earlier today.

What makes Cillizza’s tweet particularly disturbing is it depicts President Trump as viewed through a gun sight, and shows the President as an assassination target against the backdrop of being “killed in the line of duty”:

What is wrong with these people? Even scarier than their individual actions is that the majority of liberals feel it is appropriate so they actually condone this behavior by either staying silent or voicing their support.

There should have been a reply, sure you have the first amendment but we also have the second amendment, which is more powerful and immediate than the first amendment… Which part of that do you not understand?

I notice that they did not give Sarah Palin the benefit of the 1st Amendment doubt during the whole Gabby Gifford dust-up, and their connection was a further stretch than this.
No matter, with the leftists it is ok because their high ethical standards or something.

I also notice that we are right back to assassination porn — guess the impeachment hopes are failing. At least they are predictable.

These people are seeing all their work over the last 8 years get flushed right down the toilet! They realize that our President with the help of Senator Grassley and Senator McConnell are reshaping the Federal Courts with young Conservative Judges. They realize they cannot stop it.

This is a very under-reported story. conservative lawmakers have been stocking courts with one kind of thinking – and these new judges may have the longest, and most serious, impact of anything Trump has done to date as potus. https://t.co/q6nfu4fid6

And here’s the truly frightening part…it’s as though they are planting seeds, giving permission to have violence against our POTUS and/or his family. They are evil and mentally deranged beyond comprehension…and i’m Sure they would just shrug their shoulders if pointed out.
And, i’m Not just talking about the usual looney birds…the View, Morning Joe, Don Lemmon, etc. now you have formerly respected, career journalist like George Wills, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Krystol, etc. who seem to have gone off the rails, as well. One wonders if they’ve not been mind-controlled in some manner and reason stripped from their intellect.

These people are so convinced that President Trump personifies all the terrible names the media call him, that they feel like they are justified in anything they say or do. They really seem to believe those of us who support VSGPDJT have lost our minds, or are so deplorable that our judgment can’t be trusted. So they think they are going to show us the error of our ways. They seem to be truly blind to the absurdity of their own beliefs.

How many of them are like Maxine Waters – running around screaming for an impeachment, although not able to quote a crime. How many of them still believe somehow, some way PDJT either colluded with Russia or tried to obstruct the investigation – which has gone on unimpeded for how long now? I know Jewish people who should be thrilled about our Embassy relocating to Jerusalem and our strong stance with Israel, but they are so blinded by hate they call our president a fascist even as he has given the people of the State of Israel more to celebrate than any US president in how many decades?

Their behavior and beliefs defy logic, common sense and explanation and have no basis in reality.

“Their behavior and beliefs defy logic…….have no basis in reality.” Agreed, based on our ‘reality’. Their thoughts only come from their deep rooted jealousy, envy and then; hatred of someone so sucessful and revered above all expectations and loud counter-predictions. The MSM and political ‘experts’ were made fools and stripped naked of any intelligence on election eve. This world-wide public humiliation is basic source of their hatred and vicious attempts at retaliation. 30 years of being lulled by Marxists and fattened on the teat of corruption leads to a shocking awakening called Trump Reality.

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder. They are so tweaked by PDJT, who excels at pushing their buttons, that they have become completely consumed by hate. That blind rage leads to them crossing their own red lines and revealing their true natures to the public. They used to project an air of concern for the poor and downtrodden and were always quick to show how big their hearts were and how much they really cared. They lost because they turned their backs on the blue-collar union workers and completely engaged all the various fringe elements in an attempt to grow their voter base. But the blue-collar union workers were completely ignored and even attacked during the campaign. So they sided with Trump and a lot of disillusioned non-voters sided with Trump. Hillary had no policy but to continue Obama’s legacy but by that point, the shine had worn off of Obama’s platform. He became the Emperor with no clothes. He was portrayed as the smartest POTUS ever and they even called him a messiah and erected Roman columns on stage during his campaign speeches. But what has Obama really accomplished? He had to use executive power to get anything done and so far, most of Trump’s accomplishments have been to use the same pen to erase all that Obama built. Thus immediately making improvements.

The Democrats are likely to lose more House and Senate seats come Nov 2018 and they will likely lose the 2020 election as well. There is no leader on the horizon that is capable of taking on Trump. All they have is negativity while Trump blasts out this enormous light of positivity and confidence. That alone drives the Democrats absolutely insane. All it took was for one man to stand his ground at the breach in the hedgerow and say ENOUGH! I will not put up with this B.S., I am right and they are wrong. For too long the GOPe has folded due to the attacks from the Left and their negative press machine. The last person to stand and oppose the Left was Reagan. Trump is even stronger than Reagan.

Ban CNN from our White House or at least make them sit in the very back of the Press Room.
Secret Service, tell that CNN pundit Chris Cillizza he will be treated like loyal American citizens that are jailed, endure character defamation, threats to family, friends and business associates and financial ruin. Drag him through the legal system for years.
Raid his home and CNN place of business at 3 AM! Treat him like a Republican.

CNN’s Chris Cillizza should be examined by a psychiatrist – and I am serious. We joke about TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, but this man is not rational or responsible.
Depicting the US president’s assassination on a global platform is beyond a personal level of hate. He depicted our President through the sight of a gun.
Cillizza has probably never held a gun or learned respect for self-defense. He is the perfect example of a mentally unbalanced person who should be permanently recorded as “dangerous”. Listen up, david hogg. It’s Mental Illness.

I see no downside of pulling CNN ‘s press credentials…they are never going to be truthful, honest or unbiased so why continue to reward their bad behavior. Sure, they will scream bloody murder…as someone we all use to know once said…”what difference does it make?”

PDJT is unmasking these self absorbed, arrogant unmerited punks for who they are. This is Andrew Breitbart on steroids. They aren’t even atttempting to hold back now, they are exposing themselves and hastening their downfall.

Isn’t this ‘incitement’ for someone, perhaps unstable, who sees this as confirmation of the voices in his head plus the spoken and written words in the MSM? Then decides to act?
Citing the 1st amendment surely isn’t valid in such circumstances?
Isn’t such ‘incitement’ treasonous?

drawfortrust, and if we had a real and honest FBI they would be out there hauling behinds in to jail and that would include Griffen and everyone else. This is sedition and a threat to Trump and also inspiring others to maybe do it! This has got to stop and these people arrested and tried!

This is okay, but they are hot and heavy after the scalp of the lady that made a factual statement about the “traitor” that ‘is/might’ be on his deathbed. Who spouts off insults to anyone and everyone associated with President Trump like he has Tourette’s Syndrome.

Thats why my misspelled at least. Quite honestly, ban all White House access for cnn fire him, no fly list, and see him lose his press credentialing therby his work ability would be better. Not to mention a roto rooter by the secret service.

CNN needs to be off the air!!What a sick bunch of nuts who are a threat to all!!We need to notify FCC and demand they act accordingly,this behavior that CNN condones is not acceptable!!!The fake losers news!!

The situation remains unchanged.
The American left, marxists, Alinsky-ists and the culturally 3rd world thought they had become default America, they thought after Obama and Bush and Clinton there was no way back for the USA. They thought because they had captured the media, the bureaucracy, the crony corporates, the unions and the education system they had won and it was permanent.

The lashing out and hissy fits over even small deviations from their ideology shows what the authoritarian left are capable of. They actually, unbelievably take themselves seriously. Hillary was their leader.

I have seen a lot of rifle scope reticles, and there are plenty of such images on the web. The demarked circle around DJT in CC’s .gif look like no reticle I’ve ever seen. Yes, there are some that are a bit similar if you squint enough, but the lines are far too thick and the intersecting x/y axis line segments extend both inside and outside the circle. I don’t know what the heck that image shows, but to me it isn’t a scope reticle.

I’m always looking to reduce my ignorance with good information. If anyone can show me a scope reticle that looks like the one pictured, I’d be happy to be corrected, and happy to increase my level of contempt for Cillizza and his ilk.

Al, consider it a menacing cartoonish portrayal of a Hollyweird high-tech weapon sight.

Also consider that the lying Subversive did not deny that it was, indeed, a representation of a rifle scope. He just pretended that his favorite app dorked him up and he didn’t notice it for five hours of furious Patriot reactions.

The suggestion is as clear as can be, the invitation as criminal as can be, his culpability reduced not one whit for the degree of realism lacking in his plea for some nut to “rid him of this troublesome President.”

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, and I think Cilizza was going for some “plausible deniability”. It’s probably more of a camera viewfinder than a sniper scope… but he WANTED people’s first reaction to think sniper scope. That way, he thought, he could come back with “Oh you people, always looking for something sinister. Hahaha.” But it didn’t work out quite that way for Chris. His little “stunt” blew up on him big-time, when the response was nearly universal and SERIOUS against him. And besides, consider this: Even if it was CLEARLY a camera viewfinder, then what was the point? The subject matter of the picture done in that style really makes no sense under the circumstances.

So, regardless of the real reason behind Cilizza posting this in the way he did, it looks really bad for him… at worst he’s outright trying to subtly threaten Trump, and at best, he’s a total fool in thinking he was doing something “cute”.

(earlier similar comment never appeared, odd because I’m logged in to wp and have never had a problem before)

I have some familiarity with rifle scope reticles, and that circle around DJT’s head does not look like any I’ve ever seen. The line was far too thick, and the intersecting x and y axis line segments extend both inside and outside the circle. I don’t know what that is, but I don’t think it is a rifle scope reticle.

But I could be wrong. If anyone can show me a reticle that looks like that, I’d be grateful to have my ignorance reduced and my contempt for Chris Cillizza increased.

It’s probably a stylized CQB reticle from some video game. Graphic designers take liberties with real stuff (like the EOTech). The hotkey stuff at topcenter says game. The “W” & “H” at lower right are possibly coincidental, possibly not. Would have to know the origin of the image. Chans may have already figured it out.

Yeah, I could see the left subliminally (or overtly) goading some nutcase to act. The “reporter” needs slapped with a 2000 yd no-go zone near POTUS & family.

It looks to me that the W and H are image width and height in pixels. The stuff at the top appears to be hot key instructions for a mac (that thing that looks like a # with corner loops is a key on a mac keyboard). This supports the assertion that the whole overlay is an image processing artifact.

Cillizza is still an ass for using it, though. My guess is it appeared unbidden and he then deliberately posted it that way.

It may be width & height in pixels, although I don’t recall seeing visible dimensional numbers as part of any normal image. Equally, the W & H and associated numbers don’t align vertically, which one would expect with autogenerated data.

I don’t know that it matters whether or not there’s one that looks exactly like the one in the gif. I saw the gif on his twitter before it was pulled, and I immediately thought of scope. I suspect you’re thinking “hey, wait a minute” because you have far more information/knowledge of the topic than the average person.

As an average pleb with limited knowledge, I immediately thought it looks like a scope, and most of the public are like me.

And yes, I think he did it on purpose. I think he took advantage of a glitch in the gif software, and then used this same glitch as his excuse. My money would be on a “crime of opportunity” and he should probably be fired/vacationed for the glitch in his judgement.

More a plea in my mind. Which does, indeed, represent a great threat to PDJT and family.

Hell, it’s an invitation to destroy any of us Patriots as well. The Left would never be content with the elimination of our President. They would then press on to destroy the movement that put him at the head of our Nation and rejected their hand-picked monster.

America has been in a state of seige for a Century. Let’s not kid ourselves, they see us as the enemy too.

Ok I don’t use gifgrabber and don’t know how it or similar apps work. However I image searched it and that target does show up as part of the program. So he can claim it was inadvertent due to the app. I wonder if, by design or not, he and CNN will claim we are unhinged by reading more into a “coincidence”. However, I don’t see how that app could mistakenly include that as a frame. Is that possible? Beyond that, how on the world would he not have double checked his gif or missed what what was on that frame even if it were accidental???

A liberal commits a mass shooting – a gun is to blame.
A liberal sleeps through a distress call from Benghazi – a video is to blame.
A liberal depicts the assassination of the President – a software program is to blame.

Man would I hate to be a liberal… their inanimate objects are always coming to life and causing problems! 😉

In the spirit of illustrating the absurd by being absurd, I present:
CNN’s Chris Cillizza tweeted a PDJT assassination image, and then after drinking a couple of cups of coffee, deleted the image and claimed that he would never condone assassinating the President.

Well, let me state that I would never condone hog-tying Chris Cillizza, then using a rusty pocket knife cut open his pants, and cut the bottom out of his frilly pink panties. Never would I condone castrating Chris Cillizza, and then after drinking a few cups of cofveve, cut Chris Cillizza’s femoral artery so he would quickly bleed out.

I would never condone that being done to Chris Cillizza.
Really, I wouldn’t.

If my post is too violent, I assert that it is 1/10 as violent as Chris Cillizza’s tweet, that Jeffy Zucker will give him a BIG RAISE for his ingenuity!

Doesn’t matter. Secret Service called me back and gave me their email addy. Requested I send the screen shot – I sent SD’s post with the screen shot, and my response to Chris’ deleted tweet and lie about the default gif.

Well, I’d probably get a different bureaucrat, but I think we got Chris Cillizza on their radar. Maybe they visit him – which I suspect wouldn’t make his day.

The bigger issue is he intended to portray POTUS in the sights of a weapon. Doesn’t matter if it was the actual rifle scope or not. A stick figure still means it is a person, just like an artist draws a 3 dimensional full figured person.

The media crosses the line everyday regarding inciting violence and mayhem to this President, his family, his staff and us, his supporters. It’s too dangerous to accept this anymore.

The Lamestream Media is moving into panic mode. They have thrown the kitchen sink at President Trump. They have lied, manipulated and cursed our president. The good news is that no one takes them seriously anymore. President Trump makes history on a daily basis while they cry and threaten our Very Stable Genius. God Bless and protect President Trump and his family!

Ok, deep breath, Penguin. Secret Service called me back. Asked me for the screen shot and my responding tweet. Gave me his email addy. I sent them CTH’s article, and my tweet. They are going to disseminate the informaiton to their people.

Awesome!!!! This is CNN’s third time doing this type of thing, and maybe the third time is the charm that will get their FCC license revoked

(Griffin, scope view from outside the WH window, wait…..fourth time…..there was that comment about “only putting a bullet in his head would stop him getting the nomination”….that was on CNN too, wasn’t it?)

Wasn’t there also one through some trees or bushes at an event over a year ago? I remember comments on who let anyone get that close to our VSGPJT at the time. I can’t remember if here was a target of not tho.

I reccomend using all of the above. Let them know directly how you feel. It takes a few minutes for most options the phone could take a little bit. Well worth doing it.

CommunistNewsNetwork needs to be told how vile and disturbing this is. It is a pattern that needs to stop. I think calling your airport is a great idea as well. They are taking money from this disgusting propoganda network in return they air the CommunistNewsNetwork. Silent no more!

Tucker will likely comment tonight. This is a good note, that the closer to full exposure and end of the witch hunt it gets, the more violent they become.

“Cillizza’s tweet follows a trend of violent rhetoric from members of the media, including CNN analyst April Ryan recently joking about getting into a fist fight with White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace suggesting she wants to choke Sanders.”

I’ve deleted a GIF about President Trump. We use @GifGrabber to make our GIFs and it defaults to the image below as a first frame. To clear up any unintended confusion, I’ve removed the tweet. pic.twitter.com/x6PCKoiW16

Chris, show us another gif you have posted that includes the same “unintended” image. Or do you expect us to believe that after posting thousands of images correctly, you just happened to make a mistake that shows the President in what appears as a rifle scope?

I honestly didn’t know about the guidelines and my comment was incidental as far as the topic is concerned. Thanks for the curt reply though. Your final remark wasn’t necessary. Seemed somewhat condescending.

On the very day President Trump makes a speech honoring slain LEOs, CNN’s Chris Cillizza puts up on Twitter something that could put the SS LEO’s as well as the Chief Executive LEO of the nation at risk.

CNN itself needs to be shut down altogether, for numerous threats against, and consistent propaganda against the Government of the United States of America.

Cillizza apparently does not realize how he might have endangered himself as well.

Just as there are persons who are unstable and angry who might follow his clear and obvious and intentional suggestion,

there also might be some person who is unstable who will be enraged at his suggestion and may turn a scope toward Cillizza’s own head. Ironic but true.

CNN said the following in a statement to Fox News: “Chris has already addressed this issue publicly. The image in question is a framing mark used in film and video production to frame a shot. Nothing more. A producer who created the motion graphic inadvertently left that frame in the GIF. When it came to our attention, the tweet containing the GIF was deleted and replaced with explanation. There is nothing more to say.”

They knew what was tweeted, and didn’t expect the blowback. Everyone knows what their tweet looks like, especially a gif. What he did was deliberate. Secret Service is still aware that this guy just made their job harder.

Then there is nothing to say when people start demanding that CNN not be broadcast in public areas — give the airports, hospitals, and restaurants/bars a headache until they turn it off.
The way to get at media is to hit them in their viewership/ratings — what are CNN’s ratings now? I believe they are not doing well at the moment; maybe that needs a little help (to go right over the edge)?

Been following the AT&T vs Justice Dept which is the Time Warner/CNN purchase that the Trump admin filed an anti-trust suit in Nov 2017.

AT&T finished their case to the court and the Justice Dept has given theirs. It’s wrapping up.

Based on what I read (and it’s a lot of reading). Page 18 & 19 looks like a very good argument for the Justice Dept to win the case because AT&T CEO Stephenson took this to the board and the Justice Dept used his notes to prove it. Lookes like Time Warner CEO Bewkes made a problem for AT&T. If the court agrees on this issue AT&T loses the Time Warner/CNN deal they tried to make.

Page 18

.AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson echoed similar concerns when he received a phone call from
Time Warner’s CEO Jeff Bewkes, informing him that Time Warner had “take[n] a 10% stake in
Hulu” and that Hulu was going to launch a virtual MVPD. PX047. With AT&T in the midst of
standing up their own virtual MVPD service (Tr. 3475:21–22), Stephenson rejected Bewkes’
notion that “he didn’t think it would impact [AT&T’s] relationship with [Time Warner].”

Page 19

54. Finally, although repeatedly asserting before the Court that the United States’
theory is “absurd,” “stupid,” and “preposterous,” AT&T and DirecTV have stated the opposite in
a number of FCC filings.
55. In one such filing, AT&T told the FCC that “vertically integrated programmers”
that control popular content “have the incentive and ability to use (and indeed have used
whenever and wherever they can) that control as a weapon to hinder competition to their
downstream cable affiliates by withholding popular programming from competing MVPDs.”
PX0002-004; see also PX0442-004 (AT&T explaining that cable operators with affiliated
programming “attempt to use their control over such programming to try to artificially limit
competition in downstream video distribution markets.”).

His excuse for the posting –
“We use @GifGrabber to make our GIFs and it defaults to the image below as a first frame. To clear up any unintended confusion, I’ve removed the tweet.”
Has anyone tested this out to see if it’s true? The app is for a Mac so I can’t 🙁

Earlier in the thread techi people described how it was done, and it wasn’t a mistake. Besides, he would have seen his tweet and could have deleted much sooner. He didn’t. It was intentional – constant media barrage in the hope of lighting a fuse in an unstable person.

We should remind Chris Cillizza of what he wrote about Sarah Palin in 2011, and the so-called “cross-hairs” he tried to pin on her.

https://t.co/oA2sipJMSh you on @SarahPalinUSA and her crosshairs map "when a statement she released hoping to quell the controversy that surrounded her after the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) only helped create a new and even larger controversy. "

This is predictive programming and normalization of killing Trump. He could be signaling to someone for all we know. These propagandists are mockingbird operatives and we can’t bek or trust them at all.

Your assessment is light years from the truth. Behind that facade, that has the enemies of the Republic fooled, is a brilliant man, and you will see his work behind the scenes brought into the light. Be sure to have a fresh supply of crow on hand when it happens.

That’s the first time I’ve seen the whole thing and yes it is much, much worse.
Subliminal flash, meant to work on the subconscious.
I hope the Secret Service get to see this rather than just the static image.

Yeah, it’s definitely worse… but not sure in which way. If it was meant as some kind of threat, it’s far worse, seeing how they intentionally threw in the subliminal aspect. But if on the other hand it was NOT intentional, then whoever edited that clip and failed to delete those couple frames before final rendering has ZERO editing skills, and should be fired on the spot.

Great article as always. Spookily he’s deleted his tweet! I’ve spread the word, I hope he goes down for this😁 Threatening the President of the United States is a felony under United States Code Title 18, Section 871. It consists of knowingly and willfully mailing or otherwise making “any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States”. This also includes presidential candidates and former Presidents. The United States Secret Service investigates suspected violations of this law and monitors those who have a history of threatening the President. Threatening the President is considered a political offense. Immigrants who commit this crime can be deported.